Dispensing receptacles



April 14, 1959 J. 'r. LAMBERT 2,881,955

' DISPENSING RECEPTACLES Filed May 4, 1956 H DISPENSING RECEPTACLESCJohn T. Lambert, Mount Royal, Quebec, Canada 1 Application May 4, 1956,Serial No. 582,689

1 Claim. 01. 222-181 This invention relates to improvements indispensing receptacles for cartons containing dry flaked, granulated,powdered or the like materials.

particular object of this invention is to provide a receptacle which canbe readily mounted adjacent or over asink, basin or tub in anovel mannerfor ready access. at all times to the contents of a carton of thecharacter described without resortingto adjustment of the carton uponeach occasion ofuse. I

Another object is to provide a novel securing arrangement of thereceptacle to ensure dispensing of the entire contents of thereceptacle. I v

1 Still another object is to provide a mounting for the receptacle whichpermits removal of the receptacle, whenever it is desired to change thecarton received therein, andsubsequent replacement of the receptacle anda new carton with ease. v

"A', still further object is to provide a receptacle fordispensingmaterials from a carton in which the "component parts areseparable so as to enable a compact packaging of the parts fordistribution.

The conventional rectangular type of carton which is provided with topor side openings have, heretofore, presented a problem in providingsuitable dispensing devices for same which can be mounted in a fixedposition. The main problem has been to arrange such cartons in areceptacle so that a flow of the contents can be initiated withoutsubjecting the carton to repeated tilting motions on every occasion ofuse. Then, too, due to the shape of the carton fixed receptacles couldnot dispense all of the contents without resorting to manipulation ofthe carton. For this reason portable receptacles have been resorted towhich are readily tiltable upon each occasion of use to initiate theflow of the contents. However, the portable receptacle has certaindisadvantages, the main one being that the person using the same musthave a convenient place for setting it down between uses and unless ashelf or counter is provided for this purpose, it becomes a problem forstorage when not in use, particularly if the counter space is requiredfor other uses.

The present invention proposes to overcome all of these disadvantages byproviding a dispensing receptacle in combination with a bracket and wallfixture which can be attached to a wall surface adjacent or over a sinkor the like so as to be readily available for instant use when desiredand, at the same time, to simplify the storage problem.

The invention also proposes to mount the receptacle in such a way that arectangular carton can repose therein so as to have its entire contentsavailable for dispensing without further manipulation of the carton. Aspre viously stated these cartons normally have their openings in the topor side wall and, as is well known, such openings are usually adjacentone end wall. Therefore, by mounting the receptacle with its baseinclined towards one I end wall the placement of a carton within thereceptacle so that its opening is adjacent the lowermost point of thereceptacle and by providing a dispensing opening n t d Sees P en in thereceptacle at this point, the entire contents of the carton will beenabled to flow from the carton without further manipulation of thesame.

In the designing of the receptacle consideration was also given to thedesirability of displaying the carton so as to give a maximum ofadvertisement of the product. For this reason, the front of thereceptacle has been substantially removed to display the illustrationson one side wall of the carton. In this connection it is recommendedthat the cartons be apertured in their bottom wall adjacent one end sothat, when mounted in the receptacle, the display will be in a generallyupright position.

The above and other objects and characteristic fea tures of my inventionwill be understood more readily from the following detailed descriptiontaken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a receptacle embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the receptacle shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken along the lines 3--3 I of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an end view.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a modification of my receptacle.

Fig." 6 is a sectional view through the receptacle shown L inFigL s.

i Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view in section taken along the lines 77 ofFig. 5.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 5 generally indicates adispensing receptacle for a carton, indicated at 6, 7 indicates bracketand 8 a wall fixture.

'Receptacle 5 is shaped to provide a rear side wall 10, end walls 11 and12 and a bottom wall 14, the end wall 12 being of substantially greaterlength than the opposite end wall 11 and the upper edge 15 of the rearwall being inclined with reference to the plane of the bottom wall 14 soas to extend between the upper edges of end walls 11 and 12.

Bracket 7 has an arm extension 17 at one end which projects downwardlyinto retaining loops 18 extending out from wall fixture 8 so as toposition the bracket in a horizontal plane with a second arm extension19 at the opposite end of the bracket projecting vertically upward. Therear wall 10 of receptacle 5 has integrally formed retaining loops 20projecting from the rear surface of said wall 10 and arranged to receivethe arm extension 19 of bracket 7 so that the upper edge 15 of rear wall10 will be disposed horizontally and the bottom wall 14 will be inclineddownwardly towards the end wall 12. The surfaces of arm extensions 17and 19 which engage the surfaces of wall fixture 8 and rear wall 10respectively, are flattened or otherwise suitably contoured to preventrotation of the bracket either in the loops 18 or 20. Thus thereceptacle is held in a suitably spaced relation to the wall whichcarries the same.

The forward marginal portions of end and bottom walls 11, 12 and 14 areprovided with inwardly directed flanges 22, 23 and 24, defining an openface front wall which serves to retain the carton 6 while exposing anyillustration appearing on the carton to view.

As will be seen the bracket 7 supports the receptacle 5 so that thecontents of the carton tend to flow towards the lower corner adjacentend wall 12. In Figs. 2 to 4 I have illustrated a dispensing opening 25,which may be substantially triangular, in the bottom wall 14 adjacentend wall 12. A cover 26, which is pivoted at 27 to the under side ofbottom wall 14, is swingable to positions away from and directly acrossthe opening 25. In Figs. 5 to 7 I have illustrated a modification inwhich the dispensing opening 30 is substantially rectangular and isclosed by a dispenser comprising radial blades 31 extend- A 2,881,955Patented Apr. 14,

ing from a central axle 32 between laterally spaced discs 33. The discs33 abut the inner surfaces of rear wall 10 and a front flange section 34between flanges 22 and 23. The axle 32 projects. at one end through anopening in rear wall 10 and is connected at its opposite end to a crank35 which is disposed outwardly of flange section 34. Blades 31 areradially arranged so that two adjacent blades will extend with theirterminal portions spanning the opening 30. As will be seen any twoadjacent blades form a trough which will contain a predeterminedquantity of the commodity in the carton. Rotation of the dispenserthrough a segment of a circle causes the said predetermined quantity ofthe commodity to be carried through the dispensing opening 30. When theblades defining the trough span the opening again further dispensingwill be prevented until the dispenser is rotated through the nextsegment of the circle.

When it is desired to load the receptacle 5 it is first removed from thebracket 8. A carton having an opening, I

in the bottom wall is positioned with its bottom wall uppermost and thereceptacle 5 placed about the carton with the bottom wall 14 against thebottom of the carton so that the dispensing opening or covers theopening in the carton. The assembled carton and receptacle are thenreversed and the receptacle is replaced on bracket 8 in the inclinedposition shown in Fig. 1 or 5 so that the openings in the bottom wallsof the carton and receptacle will be adjacent the lowest point.

With this arrangement the illustrations on the carton are readily viewedand the entire contents of the carton are available for dispensingwithout further manipulation of carton or receptacle to cause a flow ofthe con tents towards the dispensing openings.

While emphasis has heretofore been given on the use of my dispensingreceptacle for packaged detergents and soap flakes, it is alsocontemplated to use it for packaged 4 cereals, rice, sugar or any otherflaked or granulated material in cartons. 'It will be obvious that themethod of assembly and dispensing will be the same or similar to thatabove described.

What I claim is:

An open top dispensing receptacle adapted to receive a carton having adelivery opening in its bottom wall adjacent one side wall, saidreceptacle comprising front, rear, bottom and end walls, said bottomwall having a dispensing opening adjacent oneend wall corresponding withthe opening in said carton, means mounting said receptacle so that itsbottom wall extends along an inclined plane with the dispensing openinglowermost, means for controlling said dispensing opening including aplurality of radially extending blades arranged about a central axis,said axis extending between the front and rear walls for rotation atright angles to said walls, said blades projecting into said receptacleso that, by rotation, any two adjacent blades may be positioned withtheir marginal edges at opposite defining edges of the dispensingopening with the remainder of the said adjacent blades spanning the gaptherebetween and means connected to said axis and located exteriorly ofsaid receptacle for rotating said control means.

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